Vietnam: Requirements concerning prevention and control of aquatic animal diseases in safe zone

Aquaculture establishments or households located in the zone that applies for the certificate of disease-free status must meet the requirements set forth in Article 15 hereof and the followings:

- Water supplied or wastewater and waste discharged through the general water supply and drainage system must be properly treated to prevent the transmission of pathogens;

- If all households or establishments in the zone purchase aquatic breeding animals from the same production outputs of an aquatic breeding establishment, the one quarantine certificate shall be used or an representative for establishments in the zone (hereinafter referred to as “the zone’s representative”) shall apply for inspection or testing (if breeding animals are purchased from a local breeding establishment); (*)

- With regard to the cases other than the one prescribed in (*), breeding animals transported into each household or establishment in the zone must be provided by the establishment that has been recognized to be free from aquatic animal diseases, or proved to be free from the diseases subject to the zone’s surveillance according to negative test results provided by a designated laboratory;

- The same template of aquaculture farm record as regulated by law soft shall be applied;

- All aquaculture households or establishments in the zone must cooperate with the zone’s representative to implement the surveillance plan in accordance with regulations in Article 25 and Article 26 of Circular No. 14/2016/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development of Vietnam.

View relevant provisions at Circular No. 14/2016/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development of Vietnam, effective from July 19, 2016.

- Thanh Lam -

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